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life counts. He says,<br />
My reward is with me, and I will give to each person according to what they have done.”[40]<br />
He who is the faithful witness to all these things says, “Yes, I am coming soon!”[41]<br />
The Apostle John then responds enthusiastically, “Amen! Come, Lord Jesus!”[42] May each of us have that same<br />
expectant attitude and be ready for his return!<br />
Endnotes – Is Jesus Coming Back?<br />
1. Acts 1:10, 11.<br />
2. Matthew 24:27-31.<br />
3. Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian (New York: Touchstone, 1957), 16.<br />
4. 2 Peter 3:4, NLT.<br />
5. Matthew 25:13.<br />
6. Matthew 24:3-14.<br />
7. Matthew 24:3-51.<br />
8. Luke 21:28.<br />
9. Titus 2:13.<br />
10. 2 Peter 3:8-9.<br />
11. Matthew 24:14.<br />
12. Matthew 16:13-17; Luke 4:16-21; 7:19-23.<br />
13. Matthew 24:1-2; Luke 13:34-35; 19:41-44; 21:20-24.<br />
14. Matthew 12:40; 17:22-23.<br />
15. Quoted in Josh McDowell, The New Evidence That Demands A Verdict(Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson,<br />
1999), 12.<br />
16. Peter Stoner, Science Speaks (Chicago: Moody Press, 1958.), 97-110.<br />
17. Matthew 24:1-14; Mark 13:1-37; Luke 21:5-38.<br />
18. Quoted in http://kloposmasm.wordpress.com/.<br />
19. http://www.ligonier.org/learn/devotionals/return-christ/.<br />
20. Quoted in McDowell, 209.<br />
21. Peter Steinfels, “Jesus Died—And Then What Happened?” New York Times, April 3, 1988.<br />
22. Zechariah 14:4.<br />
23. Leviticus 16:2, 29-30.<br />
24. Zechariah 14:1-4.<br />
25. Ezekiel 36:24, NLT.<br />
26. Los Angeles Times, front page, May 27, 1967.<br />
27. Zechariah 12:3.<br />
28. Revelation 1:7.<br />
29. Zechariah 12:10.<br />
30. 1 Thessalonians 4:16, 17.<br />
31. Titus 2:13.<br />
32. Revelation 21:3-15.<br />
33. C. S. Lewis, “Predictions of the Second Coming,” quoted in: http://www.atkinsmarketingsolutions.com/wp/<br />
2011/05/21/rapture-marketing-c-s-lewis-end-of-the-world-predictions/<br />
34. Luke 12:35-40.<br />
35. Matthew 25:1-13.<br />
36. Matthew 7:21-23, NASB.
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